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Whistle Stopper - War
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List Price: $34.98
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Manufacturer: Island
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0602517616752
Format: Original recording remastered
Label: Island
Manufacturer: Island
Number Of Discs: 2
Publisher: Island
Release Date: 2008-07-22
Studio: Island
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Summary: re-issue excellence !
Comment: Re-issue CD's like this are an excellent idea! Interesting liner notes, great photos, excellent sound make these packages ideal. Most important it reminds us music fans what we saw and heard in U2 from the beginning!
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Summary: Quite a gift to fans
Comment: Once again, nice to get this album and the rarities in one nicely updated package. I'm no expert on sound quality but I can assume The Edge knows his stuff about audio and we are getting it the way it should be, without Greedo firing the first shot. Since I missed out on U2's pre-Under A Blood Red Sky period the first time around, it is great to live the experience it must have been like in catching on from the beginning with these re-issues.
My only wish was that the live version of "Two Hearts Beat as One" where Bono sings part of Chubby Checker's "The Twist" was included as well. But, I see some of the live extras correspond more with the date they were performed versus the album the song was on, so maybe it will be seen later, maybe as part of Under a Blood Red Sky's or The Unforgettable Fire's extras? When was that???
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Summary: One Of Their Best *But*
Comment: Love the CD and the guys who have reviewed it really did good jobs, the first disc is great, really good sound, compaired to the original. The second CD is really nothing new if you have all those tracks from the 80's 12" and 7" craze. I thought they would dump those and add tracks that might have been done during the sessions. Anyway, overall, a great set but not as good as the first two recent remasters because how many times do we really need to hear "New Years Day" & "Two Hearts Beat As One" over & over!
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Summary: The version to own!
Comment: Forget the original remaster. You might as well throw that in the trash. THIS is the version you need to own. U2's 1983 masterpiece 'War' gets the remaster-and-reissue treatment, something that it has long since deserved.
The record is digitally remastered, meaning the sound quality is great. Island Records did a great job. While 'The Joshua Tree' was their breakthrough, 'War' guaranteed they were here to stay.
This album has many of your favorite U2 songs from the '80s. 'Sunday Bloody Sunday,' 'New Year's Day,' '40,' 'Two Hearts Beat As One,' 'Seconds,' and 'Surrender' are fan favorites, and they are all here on 'War.'
The bonus disc, however, is not as good as 'October' and 'Boy,' but it is really good. One of my personal favorite U2 songs is a rarity, and it is 'Treasure.' That song is a great punk song, and is clearly influenced by The Clash and The Jam. It's a fast song, and I classify it as a "speed punk" tune.
'Endless Deep' is a great instrumental. If you own the bonus disc of 'The Best of 1980-1990,' which is 'B-Sides 1980-1990,' than you already own this song. But it's great. It's dominated by The Edge's piano playing.
'Angels Too Tied To The Ground' is a previously unreleased tune. It's a great one, no doubt. Why this was never released before 2008 and has always been stored away in a vault is beyond me. If you are a die-hard U2 fan like I am, than you must hear this song.
The live tracks were recorded at the festival Rock Werchter. Werchter is a village in Belgium, and every year, they have a rock festival, and U2 were an act at the festival in 1982. 'Fire' and 'I Threw A Brick Through A Window/A Day Without Me' were recorded in Werchter, and are probably the best live versions of the songs I've heard yet (Trust me, as a collector of U2 bootlegs for years, I've heard tons of versions.) These are far superior to the studio versions.
The remixes are intended for the U2 collectors and die-hards. The remixes of 'New Year's Day' and 'Two Hearts Beat As One' are great. I own several of the remixes because I bought the singles and EPs. But these are great because they are remastered.
Overall, buy the 2008 remaster of 'War.' I don't care if you bought it when it first came out to CD or when it was remastered in the nineties, buy this edition. If you haven't bought 'War' yet, buy this edition.
Highly recommended for any U2 fan. If you haven't bought this, you need to. A must-have.
ENJOY!!!
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Summary: Disc1: Too loud Disc2: Selection could have been better
Comment: Although Disc1 is certainly a sonic improvement over the rather muddy original CD release, it does up the loudness level a bit (A common effect on CD's in the last decade). Some songs like "Surrender" are actually close to or are actually clipping in certain areas, which is a real shame. I'm also confused as to why the longer versions of "Seconds", "New Year's Day" and "Like a Song" weren't used in the re-mastering effort.
But Disc2 is where my confusion really starts to sink in. Many songs have been available as import CD Singles or B-sides and it's nice to have them all together on one CD. And "Angels Too Tied To the Ground" is a new song for this very long U2 fan, so that was a very nice surprise. However, they should have never added the newer New Year's Day mixes - they don't belong there! If those were dropped, the CD would have been about 45 minutes long and they could have included other missing gems like the "Be There" demo plus the demos of "Sunday Bloody Sunday", "Like a Song", "Surrender" and "THBAO".
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Editorial Reviews:
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A standard CD (as above) and a bonus CD. Bonus CD includes b-sides, live tracks and rarities. Also includes a 32 page booklet with previously unseen photos, full lyrics, new liner notes by Niall Stokes, and explanatory notes on the bonus material by The Edge.
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